If the first Alien is a "They needed a union" movie, then Aliens is a film about understaffing
David William
@nrvscrcts.bsky.social
Academic librarian, PhD in philosophy. Critical librarianship, phenomenology, synths, tabletop & video games, sci-fi. Settler on Treaty 7 land. He/him. All opinions my own. Infinite diversity in infinite combinations.
Watching Face/Off and folks, how long did Castor Troy think his priest disguise would be effective if he kept doing shit like this
Nicolas Cage's Exaggerated 'Wow' Reaction
Alt: Nicolas Cage's Exaggerated 'Wow' Reaction in Face/Off
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NEW: I've got some reflections on my 20 hours in an Edmonton ER with a broken arm and leg. open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...
What I Learned on My 20-Hour Odyssey at an Edmonton ER
The hospital staff were incredible, doing the best they could in a trying situation, but one cannot escape the reality that our health-care system is fundamentally broken.
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The only film poster hanging on our basement wall is this one.
io9@io9.com · 2d ago30 Years Later, 'Cure' Is Still an Unassailably Hypnotic Horror Masterwork
THIS is how you be an actual trans ally! 🙌 variety.com/2026/tv/glob...
‘Black Mirror’ and ‘Loki’ Directors Say They Rejected HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’ Due to J.K. Rowling’s Transphobia: ‘Absolutely F—-ing Not’
Top TV directors Ally Pankiw and Kate Herron rejected the chance to join HBO's forthcoming series adaptation of J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" novels.
variety.com
Currently imagining educators from every institution on the planet that depends on Classroom frantically trying to schedule a meeting about the impact of this rollout on academic integrity.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d ago“…a new Gemini tab within Classroom will allow students of all ages to seek A.I. help on math problems and writing assignments. They can also generate course aids like study guides, quizzes and flashcards, as well as produce images.”
We've gotta start treating these companies like the pariahs they are
ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed to Palantir
LexisNexis sells a massive amount of data to law enforcement, including ICE. New records indicate ICE wants to feed that data into a Palantir system.
404media.co
Thank you, SLCN! 💗👏 “Greenview has spent about $70 million to lay the groundwork for… the world’s largest AI data centre requiring up to nine gigawatts, powered by North America’s largest gas-fired plant…” The Greenview County council is despicable. #abpoli www.theenergymix.com/oleary-loses...
O’Leary Loses, First Nation Wins its Call to Review Data Centre Water Permits
Kevin O’Leary’s attempt to block Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation from requesting a judicial review of water permits for the C$70 B Wonder Valley AI data centre project has been dismissed. The review will go...
theenergymix.com
"There's evidence that for the first few weeks of using AI, [people] check things pretty carefully and then at a point they stop checking because they assume it will be right."
Asher Wolf@asherwolf.bsky.social · 2d agoError by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Gaza’s archives have been destroyed. The Omari mosque’s library & cultural centre, whose thousands of ancient documents had survived the Crusades, have reportedly been lost. The Al Qarara museum was bombed from the air and then bulldozed. A people’s entire past has been deliberately eradicated. 📚📜
Ukrainian cathedrals, Gaza’s archives, Iranian squares – modern war is systematically erasing human history | Simon Jenkins
It is not enough now for war to kill, it must eradicate a people’s cherished and precious heritage too, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
theguardian.com
This sets an awful precedent. Now migrants know they have to stay quiet — or else.
12 international students at Calgary protest referred to CBSA office after status check | CBC News
A dozen people who took part in a weeks-long international student protest in northeast Calgary have been flagged as "being possibly inadmissible" and, according to an immigration lawyer, could be for...
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yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect
the fact that doing lots of routine, basic mental labor seems to offset cognitive decline blunts my AI enthusiasm significantly
The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · 2d ago"After adjusting for age, sex, race, ethnicity and education, roughly 1 in 100 taxi and ambulance drivers died of Alzheimer’s, compared with 1 in 60 people overall. This pattern did not extend to other driving jobs."
Begging folks to wake up and realize that the massive increase in food borne illness and infectious diseases is not an accident. This was always the goal. The regime removed protections because they want “the vulnerable” to die. Fascism and eugenics go hand in hand.
Foodborne illness outbreaks are especially bad this summer | CNN
Federal data suggests that this is a particularly bad summer for foodborne illness outbreaks in the US.
cnn.com
You know how bad shit has to get for Raffi to be like “the peace of death is too good for him”
Raffi_RC@raffic.bsky.social · 3d agodying while in office not enough. prison is what his heinous crimes warrant. the nation will need a tribunal to hold him and his maga GOP accountable for contempt of democracy, for undermining the constitution they swore to uphold. and, at long last, the #epstein survivors will deserve justice.
If you’ve ever wanted a T-shirt repping a racist Canadian group pushing for mass deportations, your purchase is just a few clicks away — all thanks to Shopify. When I reached out to them, they said "we don’t remove merchants over objections to their worldview.” Wow. My latest for @thetyee.ca:
Shopify Powers a Racist Group’s Online Store. It’s Not the First Time | The Tyee
The $250 billion Canadian company has repeatedly found itself in controversy over its support of ‘free speech.’
thetyee.ca
I know this is the most navel-gazing of titles (sorry!), but I'm really really excited to chat with @salem-zine-witch.bsky.social and Dez Alaniz about how teaching and creating zines opens up our work in libraries to new radical possibilities. Please join us on Thursday August 27th!! 📚
Library Juice Connections@libjuiceconnect.bsky.social · 4d agoZinesters as Librarians, Librarians as Zinesters https://ow.ly/HkhC50ZyFVl How does being a librarian influence our zine practices? How does being a zinester influence our library practice? Join Dez Alaniz, Violet Fox 🦊 and Dawn (Rogers) Stahura as we talk about it!
"This is an issue of professional ethics, local democracy, expressive freedom, and courage. Future generations will ask whether public libraries defended these values when it mattered most, or whether they became instruments of censorship." #abpoli #cdnpoli 📚
Opinion: Alberta's public libraries should challenge UCP censorship
We hope Alberta’s public libraries will do the right thing.
edmontonjournal.com
the words "Koyaanisqatsi: Free with ads" are really doing something in my head. nothing particularly good, I think. but it's happening
Based on the attract screen, you won't see the name of this 90s arcade game coming...
Also, 49-year-olds who have fringe political beliefs and play in post-hardcore bands with >1000 followers on Instagram
r o o@jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 4d ago"Bluesky is dying" bro you're talking about a website full of 38 year olds who have fringe political beliefs and listen to black metal bands with >1000 listeners on spotify, nobody here cares about popularity
it's so over. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gen Z Is Moving Money From Stocks to Sports Betting in Wealth Plans
Sports betting is increasingly competing with traditional investing for younger Americans’ attention, with more than a quarter of Gen Z investors saying they see gambling on sports as part of their lo...
bloomberg.com
HALF NELSON was a 1985 Joe Pesci TV series that was cancelled after 9 episodes, but its intro seems to last forever via an escalating cavalcade of absurd cast reveals, underscored by a theme song that feels like a gag gift when you can't license "I Love L.A."...
"This whole story of BMW’s in-car ad makes me not just desire a day before all this digital tech was crammed into cars, but for better transit and cycling infrastructure so people can more easily ditch their cars altogether."
Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 4d agoIn the 2010s, we were told new tech would revolutionize transportation. As BMW faces backlash for sticking a Spider-Man ad on its center console, we can see what it really amounted to: cars that collect vast quantities of data on us and which automakers are desperate to use to push ads on us too.